16-letter words containing al
- call one's shots — a discharge of a firearm, bow, etc.
- call to quarters — a bugle call shortly before taps, notifying soldiers to retire to their quarters
- calligraphically — In a calligraphic manner: using calligraphy.
- calorimetrically — In a calorimetric manner.
- cannonball serve — (in tennis) a very fast low serve
- canterbury tales — an unfinished literary work by Chaucer, largely in verse, consisting of stories told by pilgrims on their way to the shrine of St. Thomas à Becket at Canterbury
- capital employed — the money used by a business for buying land, buildings, equipment etc
- capital movement — the payments that flow between countries
- capital reserves — the money which a company holds in reserve
- capital sentence — the punishment of death for a crime
- capitalistically — In a capitalistic manner.
- cardinal numbers — Also called cardinal numeral. any of the numbers that express amount, as one, two, three, etc. (distinguished from ordinal number).
- cardinal virtues — the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude
- carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
- cartographically — the production of maps, including construction of projections, design, compilation, drafting, and reproduction.
- catachrestically — In a catachrestic way.
- catastrophically — of the nature of a catastrophe, or disastrous event; calamitous: a catastrophic failure of the dam.
- cathedral church — the principal church in a diocese
- celestial empire — Chinese Empire
- celestial sphere — an imaginary sphere of infinitely large radius enclosing the universe so that all celestial bodies appear to be projected onto its surface
- centennial state — Colorado (used as a nickname).
- central american — of or relating to Central America or its inhabitants
- central cylinder — stele (def 4).
- central european — involving or denoting the people, countries, cultures, or languages of Central Europe
- central tendency — the tendency of the values of a random variable to cluster around the mean, median, and mode
- centrally heated — A centrally heated building or room has central heating.
- centrifugal pump — a pump having a high-speed rotating impeller whose blades throw the water outwards
- chalon-sur-saône — an industrial city in E central France, on the Saône River. Pop: 50 124 (1999)
- characteristical — Also, characteristical. pertaining to, constituting, or indicating the character or peculiar quality of a person or thing; typical; distinctive: Red and gold are the characteristic colors of autumn.
- charlotte amalie — the capital of the Virgin Islands of the United States, a port on St Thomas Island. Pop: 18 914 (2000)
- chattel personal — an item of movable personal property, such as furniture, domestic animals, etc
- chauvinistically — a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory.
- chemical element — chemistry: substance
- chemical peeling — a cosmetic process in which a substance containing a chemical (esp alpha-hydroxy acids) is applied to the skin of the face and peeled away to remove a layer of dead cells
- chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
- chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
- chest specialist — a physician who specializes in diseases affecting the organs in the chest
- chinese calendar — the former calendar of China, in which the year consisted of 12 lunar months with an intercalary month added seven times every 19 years to reconcile the lunar year of 354 days with the solar year of 365 days, time being reckoned in 60-year cycles with the first cycle dating from 2637 b.c.
- chinese fan palm — a fan palm, Livistona chinensis, of southern Japan, having very large, deeply cleft leaves and bluish-green, ovalish fruit.
- chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
- cinnamic alcohol — a white, water-insoluble, crystalline solid, C 9 H 10 O, having a hyacinthine odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of perfumes.
- circuit analyzer — multimeter.
- circuit calculus — (CIRCAL) A process algebra used to model and verify the design correctness of concurrent systems such as digital logic.
- circumlocutional — Of or relating to circumlocution : circumlocutionary.
- circumstantially — of pertaining to, or derived from circumstances: a circumstantial result.
- cladogenetically — By means of cladogenesis.
- classical school — an economic theory based on the works of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, which explains the creation of wealth and advocates free trade
- clausal language — (language) (CL) A programming language and proof system developed by Paul Voda and a colleague since 1997, written in Trilogy II.
- climatologically — In climatological terms.
- clinically obese — overweight to a degree which causes medical complications